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Lao Tzu
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In response to your statement that the US supported the Khmer Rogue. I suggest you read pages 69-76 of "useful Idiots' by Mona Charen. Here are some examples of the US fighting the Khmer Rogue.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=7572
Then in early 1975 the Watergate Congress dealt non-Communist Indochina the final blow. The new Congress icily resisted President Gerald Ford’s January request for additional military aid to South Vietnam and Cambodia. This appropriation would have provided the beleaguered Cambodian and South Vietnamese militaries with ammunition, spare parts, and tactical weapons needed to continue their own defense. Despite the fact that the 1973 Paris Peace Accords called specifically for "unlimited military replacement aid" for South Vietnam, by March the House Democratic Caucus voted overwhelmingly, 189-49, against any additional military assistance to Vietnam or Cambodia.
http://www.geographyiq.com/countries/cb/Cambodia_history_summary.htm
The United States moved to provide material assistance to the new government's armed forces, which were engaged against both the Khmer Rouge insurgents and NVA/VC forces. In April 1970, US and South Vietnamese forces entered Cambodia in a campaign aimed at destroying NVA/VC base areas. Although a considerable quantity of equipment was seized or destroyed, NVA/VC forces proved elusive and moved deeper into Cambodia. NVA/VC units overran many Cambodian army positions while the Khmer Rouge expanded their smallscale attacks on lines of communication.
On New Year's Day 1975, Communist troops launched an offensive which, in 117 days of the hardest fighting of the war, destroyed the Khmer Republic. Simultaneous attacks around the perimeter of Phnom Penh pinned down Republican forces, while other Khmer Rouge units overran fire bases controlling the vital lower Mekong resupply route. A US-funded airlift of ammunition and rice ended when Congress refused additional aid for Cambodia. Phnom Penh and other cities were subjected to daily rocket attacks causing thousands of civilian casualties. Phnom Penh surrendered on April 17--5 days after the US mission evacuated Cambodia.
The international community responded with a massive relief effort coordinated by the United States through UNICEF and the World Food Program. More than $400 million was provided between 1979 and 1982, of which the United States contributed nearly $100 million.At one point, more than 500,000 Cambodians were living along the Thai-Cambodian border and more than 100,000 in holding centers inside Thailand.
http://www.gaminggeeks.org/Resources/KateMonk/Orient/Indochina/Cambodia.htm
Cambodia became the Khmer Republic in October 1970 and Lon Nol became president in 1972. His regime was opposed by the exiled Sihanouk and by the communist Khmer Rouge/CPK which gained control of the resistance although victory was postponed due to a heavy US bombing campaign early in 1973.
Please disprove these things. Why woudl the US support the same communist org that they spent 4 years fighting from 1969-73? Why did Ford try to support stopping the Rouge in 75? Why did the US provide $100 million in aid in 1979? Its also my understanding the US tried to force a ceasefire witht he Khmer Rouge in 1972 but it failed. Hardly sounds like the acts of a country that wants the Khmer rouge to gain power.
I have a question for you. Many people you idealogically sympathise with fought tooth & nail to prevent the US from fighting communism in indochina. Doesn't that make them/you responsible for the atrocities committed by the Khmer Rogue more than the US? The US fought to stop the spread of communism, why are we to blame for its spread? The bombing situation is largely a circumstantial case, and doesn't explain why the Khmer Rogue didn't come to power until 2 years after the bombing stopped (1975). The Khmer Rogue also came to power 2 year after the US left Indochina and 5 days after the US left Cambodia. Why not blame the war critics who fought to keep the US from stopping communism that for the situation? Would that mean taking responsibility for things people don't want to accept?
http://www.frontpagemag.com/articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=7572
Then in early 1975 the Watergate Congress dealt non-Communist Indochina the final blow. The new Congress icily resisted President Gerald Ford’s January request for additional military aid to South Vietnam and Cambodia. This appropriation would have provided the beleaguered Cambodian and South Vietnamese militaries with ammunition, spare parts, and tactical weapons needed to continue their own defense. Despite the fact that the 1973 Paris Peace Accords called specifically for "unlimited military replacement aid" for South Vietnam, by March the House Democratic Caucus voted overwhelmingly, 189-49, against any additional military assistance to Vietnam or Cambodia.
http://www.geographyiq.com/countries/cb/Cambodia_history_summary.htm
The United States moved to provide material assistance to the new government's armed forces, which were engaged against both the Khmer Rouge insurgents and NVA/VC forces. In April 1970, US and South Vietnamese forces entered Cambodia in a campaign aimed at destroying NVA/VC base areas. Although a considerable quantity of equipment was seized or destroyed, NVA/VC forces proved elusive and moved deeper into Cambodia. NVA/VC units overran many Cambodian army positions while the Khmer Rouge expanded their smallscale attacks on lines of communication.
On New Year's Day 1975, Communist troops launched an offensive which, in 117 days of the hardest fighting of the war, destroyed the Khmer Republic. Simultaneous attacks around the perimeter of Phnom Penh pinned down Republican forces, while other Khmer Rouge units overran fire bases controlling the vital lower Mekong resupply route. A US-funded airlift of ammunition and rice ended when Congress refused additional aid for Cambodia. Phnom Penh and other cities were subjected to daily rocket attacks causing thousands of civilian casualties. Phnom Penh surrendered on April 17--5 days after the US mission evacuated Cambodia.
The international community responded with a massive relief effort coordinated by the United States through UNICEF and the World Food Program. More than $400 million was provided between 1979 and 1982, of which the United States contributed nearly $100 million.At one point, more than 500,000 Cambodians were living along the Thai-Cambodian border and more than 100,000 in holding centers inside Thailand.
http://www.gaminggeeks.org/Resources/KateMonk/Orient/Indochina/Cambodia.htm
Cambodia became the Khmer Republic in October 1970 and Lon Nol became president in 1972. His regime was opposed by the exiled Sihanouk and by the communist Khmer Rouge/CPK which gained control of the resistance although victory was postponed due to a heavy US bombing campaign early in 1973.
Please disprove these things. Why woudl the US support the same communist org that they spent 4 years fighting from 1969-73? Why did Ford try to support stopping the Rouge in 75? Why did the US provide $100 million in aid in 1979? Its also my understanding the US tried to force a ceasefire witht he Khmer Rouge in 1972 but it failed. Hardly sounds like the acts of a country that wants the Khmer rouge to gain power.
I have a question for you. Many people you idealogically sympathise with fought tooth & nail to prevent the US from fighting communism in indochina. Doesn't that make them/you responsible for the atrocities committed by the Khmer Rogue more than the US? The US fought to stop the spread of communism, why are we to blame for its spread? The bombing situation is largely a circumstantial case, and doesn't explain why the Khmer Rogue didn't come to power until 2 years after the bombing stopped (1975). The Khmer Rogue also came to power 2 year after the US left Indochina and 5 days after the US left Cambodia. Why not blame the war critics who fought to keep the US from stopping communism that for the situation? Would that mean taking responsibility for things people don't want to accept?
